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TIL there is an affluent teenage gang called the 'Gilbert Goons' that has been terrorizing upscale Gilbert Arizona, who beat an innocent teenage boy to death unprovoked.

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p8m8b TIL several states in the U.S. have been considering reimplementing the firing squad as a means of execution, because the drugs for lethal injections have been getting harder to acquire, the firing squad often causes a very quick death, and it has historically had a low rate of botched executions.
606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.
wLX67 TIL John Hamm, of Mad Men fame, was suspended from The University of Texas for putting a student's testicles in a claw hammer and leading him around a house while the student was beaten, paddled, and set on fire.
mxmly TIL Instead of a jail sentence, a Texas man agreed to be sentenced to sleep in an outdoors doghouse for 30 consecutive nights, as a punishment for abusing his son.
69WmZ TIL about the ‘Yakhchal’ which is an ancient structure used to produce, harvest, and store ice.